Xbox Game Pass November Wave 1 2023 Lineup Announced

Microsoft has announced the first wave of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in November 2023, taking subscribers up to November 14.

First off, three games hit Game Pass today, October 31, to close out this month. Headbangers: Rhythm Royale (Cloud, Console, and PC) is available today as a day-one Game Pass game. Headbangers puts you and 29 others into the eye of a pigeon while you battle it out in rhythmic challenges to find out who is the ultimate Master Headbanger.

Jusant (Cloud, Console, and PC) is another day-one Game Pass game. In Don’t Nod’s climbing adventure you ascend a mysterious, ever-changing tower accompanied by the enigmatic Ballast, your watery companion who guides you while awakening nature along your path to reveal the tower’s mysteries and reach the top.

And the final game for today is Wartales (Cloud, Console, and PC), Shiro Games’ open-world role-playing game in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe.

Here’s what’s coming next to Game Pass:

• Thirsty Suitors (Cloud, Console, and PC) – November 2
• Football Manager 2024 (PC) – November 6
• Football Manager 2024 Console (Cloud, Console, and PC) – November 6
• Dungeons 4 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – November 9
• Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (Cloud, Console, and PC) – November 9
• Wild Hearts (Cloud, Console, and PC) EA Play – November 9
• Spirittea (Cloud, Console, and PC) – November 13
• Coral Island (Cloud and Xbox Series X|S) – November 14

Outerloop Games’ Thirsty Suitors, a day-one Game Pass game, is a stylish RPG that follows the story of Jala, who’s back to her town of Timber Hills “to confront her mistakes, make up with her exes, reconcile cultural differences, and become the person she was meant to be with active turn-based combat, skating, and cooking”.

Football Manager 2024, also available day-one on PC Game Pass, is Sports Interactive’s famous football management sim. Football Manager 2024 Console, also out day-one, is the console version.

The day-one Game Pass games keep on coming with Dungeons 4, which is a dungeon creation game.

Sega’s Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is yet another day-one Game Pass game.

Perhaps the highlight of November’s Game Pass lineup is Koei Tecmo’s take on Monster Hunter, Wild Hearts, which first launched in February published by EA. It’s in Game Pass as part of EA Play, which means it’s available to PC Game Pass and Ultimate members. “Wild Hearts’ building mechanics add a very fun twist to its familiar but well-executed co-op monster hunting formula,” we said in IGN’s Wild Hearts review.

Spirittea rounds out November’s day-one Game Pass games. It’s described as a cute, cozy life sim inspired by Stardew Valley and Spirited Away.

And finally, Coral Island is a game all about island living.

Eight games are also leaving Game Pass on November 15. They are:

• Coffee Talk (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Exapunks (PC)
• Ghost Song (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Gungrave G.O.R.E (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Football Manager 2023 (PC)
• Football Manager 2023 Console (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Lapin (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Townscaper (Cloud, Console, and PC)

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